Interesting thought, but #nostr bandwidth would inflate even faster than the USD supply.
Pls do not NIP this, devs
We should team up!
My BIL has about an acre of vintage vehicles in need of hardpoints and smokestack exhausts :-p
So, AUD/USD graph suggests we de-industrialised early and harder, and now we're both circling down the drain at the same rate. Checks out.
We live in a society where nobody wants to admit to thinking.
(At least not in public.)
Your rule would have to be interestingly drafted to navigate around:
- Abortion
- Risky medical procedures, esp cosmetic ones
- "Bug chasing"
- Euthanasia
The above to one side, I, respectfully, cannot agree with the logic of blanket banning anything preemptively "just to be safe". Consensual (or apparently-consensual) murder is so rare that when/if it comes up - just give the case to a jury to hear the facts in evidence and decide if they believe the consent was valid.
(This is an example of why I believe precedent-based law is superior to legislation-based law)
Yup. The victim asked to be eaten.
Very weird ppl...
Don't know about the others, but I think if the consent is valid, then no offense has occurred. There was a notorious case about this in Germany maybe twenty years ago.
They stung the guy with desecrating a corpse or some such, couldn't get anything resembling murder to stick
I was astonished to learn he felt he would have fought on the other side if his home state had chosen otherwise. Local patriotism was big then.
He also surrendered in the end to save his men, but only once it was clear the cause was hopeless. Respect!
What if I get the coffee for free because I helped her with an assignment? What if I get the coffee for free because she thinks then I'll vote for her in a party preselection for delegates to the state convention? (Both of these have happened with me).
Commercial vs noncommercial is actually very hard to distinguish some times, and business at the higher levels is less about cash and more about relationships.
(I've never paid cash for sex, but I've written papers, offered sympathy, helped with chores/moving, taken out socially, given tours of my city, in more ambiguous circumstances)
Wealthier people can choose forms of exchange with more formalities and more ambiguity (and consequently more economic friction).
You've chosen good examples, but its often not that clear cut.
I have a friend who was once a (non-stripper) entertainer at a bar in Japan. Sex wasn't explicitly required, but boyfriends were forbidden, to make sure the customers felt they were in with a chance. Grey area. Not a big jump from there to some account management or acting careers.
And on the flip side, my neighbour had a favourite client she was always happy to see. And before I knew her, her last boyfriend had started out as a client.
I don't think its practical to distinguish, and I certainly don't think its practical to distinguish in a nondiscriminatory way.
Account manager sleeps with client to get contract = not prostitution
B-list celebrity sleeps with director to get big role = not prostitution
Journalist sleeps with general to get classified scoop = not prostitution
Employee sleeps with boss to get coveted promotion = not prostitution
Working class but well-read girl with crooked teeth gets paid to go to restaurants with tycoon, sympathise with his first world problems, and later sleep with him = prostitution
(Last example was my neighbour one place I lived)
That's what I mean by how selective the criminalisation is.
I'm unaware of any government succeeding in preventing it.
The most that's yet been achieved has been state-sponsored persecution, imprisonment and/or abuse of women who are poor, coloured or trans, for the offense of "undercutting" more privileged women's imagined monopoly on privileged men. Oh, and creating monopoly profits for organised crime, and free/coerced sex for uniformed organised crime (police).
Never thought criminalising it was worth it, even when I was a teenage Social Democrat with a teenager's faith in authority.
I feel the problem is less that they are stupid (they are) and corrupt (they are), and more that they don't see any reason to feel responsible for actual outcomes. Or even pretend to. As long as the "announceable" gets clicks and likes they've done their job.
I do think that's something fairly new.
NBN was flaky today too, whatever happened i dont think it was entirely Optus.
I am seriously investigating moving entirely to SIP for phone calls and SMS. Then I can use whatever TCP/IP connection is around.
Problem might be using it for institutions requiring it for 2FA, apparently VoIP-only mobile numbers are often blocked. :-/
Indoor plumbing FTW!
Hmmm. That's a harder question than it appears.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your users will include a lot of older people with limited willingness to learn new interfaces.
In that case, I would just setup a mailserver, and create a special church email address for each member. TLS is enabled by default, and the plaintext is never exposed unless emails are sent to external addresses. Metadata on who logs in and when is exposed, but not the details on who messages who.
It's not the new hotness, but even Boomers can use email.
Name one generally-unpopular historical figure you actually like, and tell us why!
#AskNostr #grownostr #history
There is literally no abuse by Socialism that cannot be duplicated with authoritarian monopolistic crony-capitalism.
The common thread is centralisation of power, and its use to construct dependency.
Something Western politicians of all Establishment flavours fund every day...
Chilling how the report anticipated COVID in such detail back in 2010.